Fence-post.



No. 772,614. 'PATENTED OCT. 18, 1904. :r s. HANNON.

PEN-GE POST. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 21. 1904.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented October 18, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

J STITH HANNON, OF OPELIKA, ALABAMA.

FENCE-POST.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 772,614, dated October 18, 1904:.

' Application filed January 21, 1904. Serial No. 190,095. (No model.) I I To aZZ whom, it May concern.-

Beit known that I, J STITH HANNON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Opelika,

material increase in weight or expense of construction.

With the above-and other objects in view,

tain novel features of construction, as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which corresponding partsare denoted by like designating characters, there is illustrated a preferred form of the embodiment of the invention capable of carrying the same into practical operation. it being understoodv that the invention is not necessarily limited thereto, as various changes in the shape, proportions, and general assemblage of the parts may be: resorted to without departing from the principle of the invention.

In the drawings thus employed, Figure 1 is a perspective view of one of the improved posts with one of the strand-wires of the fence applied. Fig. 2 is a transverse section enlarged. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail view illustrating the construction more fully.

The improved post is formed from a single plate of metal of requisite thickness and length and bent longitudinally into a relatively large central V-shaped rib 1O, flanked by relatively smaller-V-shaped ribs 11 12, spaced from the central rib and parallel thereto.

Pierced through the walls of the central rib near its upper end are alined apertures 13 14, preferably elongated and connected through the apex of the rib by diagonal clefts position.

15, the clefts providing'for the insertion of sition which it will not be caused to assume by any strains or pressure to which it will besubjected when in use.

The strand-wires may be bent into position for insertion into the apertures by any suitable implement and may be further secured V by wedges 17, if found necessary. as will appear as the nature of the invention -is better understood, thesame consists in cer-.

The flanking ribs 11 12 will preferably be disposed with their apexes substantially in transverse alinement with the apertures 13 14;, so that the strand-wires 16 will rest against the flanking ribs when positioned upon the post, and thus assist in supporting them in By this simple arrangement it will be obvious that a very strong and rigid post is produced which will offer an increased area of resistance to lateral strains exerted by the pull of the strand-wires and which will also offer a correspondingly-increased resistance to movement laterally of the longitudinal plane of the fence by reason of the increase in the area of the material of the post encountered by the earth in which it is embedded. Y

The metal employed will preferably be steel and will also preferably be galvanized or otherwise treated to resist corrosion.

Having thus described the invention,'what is claimed is 1. As a new article of manufacture, a fencepost made from a plate of metal bent to form aplurality of V-shaped ribs, the center one of which has its apex projecting beyond the apexes of the other ribs and provided with angularly-disposed wire-receiving apertures.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a fencepost made from a plate of metal bent to form three V-shaped ribs, the center one of which has its apex projecting beyond the apexes of the other two and provided with angularlydisposed wire-receiving apertures.

3. As a new article of manufacture, a fencepost made from a plate of metal, bent to form three V-shaped ribs, the center one of which has its apex projecting beyond the apexes of the other two and provided with angularly disposed wire-receiving orifices the rear walls of which are in alinement with the crest of the apexes of the two side ribs.

In testimony that 1 claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto zifiixed my signature in 10 the presence of two witnesses.

J S'llTH HANNON.

\Vitnesses:

JULE GREENE, JAMES G. COMFORT. 

